Tag Archives: Cinema
INTERVIEW: Des Mangan (Hercules Returns)
Des Mangan is the man behind Double Take, the comedy troupe who gave us cult comedy Hercules Returns (David Parker, 1993), which Physical Impossibility is presenting at the Grosvenor Cinema, Glasgow, for one night only on Saturday 26/09 as part of Scalarama 2015. … Continue reading
Disreputable Trash
Matchbox Cineclub‘s September screening was Nobuhiko Ôbayashi’s House (1977). It was part of the annual UK-wide Scalarama film festival which aims to celebrate independent cinema and DIY, pop-up cinema culture, often with a focus on what The Skinny called “the kind of disreputable … Continue reading
Pasolini Programme Note for GFT
Pasolini (Dir. Abel Ferrara, 2014) is screening at GFT from today, Friday 11th September, to Thursday 17th September. GFT have also programmed single screenings of Pasolini’s The Gospel According To St Matthew (1964) and Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975). My accompanying programme note will … Continue reading
Matchbox Cineclub #9: House (Scalarama 2015)
Matchbox Cineclub’s September screening, part of Scalarama 2015, will be Nobuhiko Obayashi’s House (1977). House is a Japanese film about a group of schoolgirls terrorised by a haunted house, which is also the very least of it. It was a struggling Japanese film industry’s … Continue reading
Scalarama 2015: Scaledonia | Glasgow
Scalarama is a month-long homage to the spirit of London’s dearly departed Scala Cinema, celebrating independent cinema by promoting DIY events, pop-up screenings and generally making no distinction between high and low art, all in the name of a borderline-worrying obsession … Continue reading
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